Frankenstein: The True Story

Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein is widely considered to be among the novels that fully exemplify Romantic-era literary achievement. The Romantic movement is a general term used to denote the intellectual evolution in literature and the arts, primarily in 19th century Europe. Substantial facets of literary Romanticism include belief in the innate virtue of humans, the bounds of morality, as well as exploration of the polarity of human emotion; all of which are embodied in Shelley’s…

Milton’s, Paradise Lost, which expands on the initial chapters of Genesis through the story of Adam and Eve. Paradise Lost follows the story of Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden after Satan tempts Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, the main character, Frankenstein, creates a monster out of dead body parts and electricity. As Frankenstein grows to resent his creation, the monster becomes an outcast of society due to his…

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley help to paint a clear picture of what a monster actually is. Frankenstein and Lord Henry are used to show that a true monster is someone that ruins the lives others either through negligence or subtle manipulations. At first glance, Frankenstein seems to be a simple book about a man that creates a monster and regrets his decision for the rest of his life, but this is not the case: Frankenstein is a novel about…

"Frankenstein" is arguably one of the most well-known books of all time. While it has been misinterpreted over the years, anyone who reads the book can easily find something that may raise questions about their existence. "Frankenstein" has many different themes that are still very notable in today's society and can be related to our everyday life. Whether the theme you find is one of society's reliance of one's looks, to what makes us human, there is never a shortage of new questions to be…

In addition to that great lizard, Frankenstein is a well known monster in movie history. The art of the film is widely enjoyed in the more civilized places of the world. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley twists the norm, when the monster shows more human qualities than his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Although Shelley paints the creature with typically evil characteristics, the creature is more a man than those men who call him a monster. Victor Frankenstein is selfish, irresponsible for…

The second edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published in 1831, recalls the ambition of Victor Frankenstein, an ardent lover of natural sciences and the creator of the creation, to reanimate life. In the novel, Shelley includes three male narrators telling their perspectives on the events that occur. Initially, Robert Walton, a man who has the desire to discover a quick route to the North Pole, explains his goal through a series of letters to his sister, Margaret Saville. It is through…

Although in Frankenstein Victor is purely the one to blame, in the story Dracula, Jonathan Harker is the character in which the reader feels immense pity for. Jonathan Harker had traveled to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Dracula and even though he felt strange about the whole encounter and Dracula himself, Jonathan blew it off because of his duty to his job. Then Jonathan becomes prisoner, once he escapes he gets extremely ill possibly because of the shock. But, the reason why…

“It’s All Greek to Me” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein alludes to the story of Prometheus as they are both creators that go against God, that only lead to their own destruction. In the story of the wise Prometheus, he was the creator of mankind and taught them art. In Frankenstein, Victor was the creator of a monster when it says on page 51, “Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticality. It was with these feelings that I…

within us all, just waiting to emerge. In the books Frankenstein and Macbeth, the two main characters begin and end the story as two completely different people, drastically changed by their actions and surroundings. Ignorance and knowledge being two recurring themes in the book Frankenstein and the play Macbeth, the two themes are polar opposites, yet work well together when comparing and contrasting these two readings. Both Macbeth and Frankenstein suffer from either an abundance, or lack…

identity, doing so via memorable characters and storylines that linger in a reader’s mind long after finishing the works. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk look at the darker side of humanity and present main characters who adopt different identities and act as instruments of both good and evil, leading to conflicted identities. Victor Frankenstein the scientist and Ambrosio the monk are similar characters that struggle through identity crises and the chaos that plagues…